meat0918:More evidence in the "American's do not worship the God of the New Testament" column.

Just leave the jackboots at home when you come for the non-believers please. They are so unflattering to the full waisted figures that are the epitome of American Christianity.

Christianity is the only major world religion to have it's collective panties in a bunch over contraception....even Islam is okay with it. That should tell you where Christians are currently rating on the "civilization" scale.

meat0918:More evidence in the "American's do not worship the God of the New Testament" column.

Just leave the jackboots at home when you come for the non-believers please. They are so unflattering to the full waisted figures that are the epitome of American Christianity.

Today on my way to work I saw a message scrawled on the back of a pickup, written in shoe polish, excoriating the president for being a dictator and king and concluding with a Bible verse. I couldn't believe I was seeing paranoid schizophrenia in real time so I pulled alongside this patriot, only to discover the fattest man I have ever seen crammed into a Ford Ranger, wearing a USMC cap and camo balaclava.

meat0918:More evidence in the "American's do not worship the God of the New Testament" column.

Just leave the jackboots at home when you come for the non-believers please. They are so unflattering to the full waisted figures that are the epitome of American Christianity.

Yeah, that's the thing that strikes me here. What Pope Francis is proposing here is not radical in any sense: he's just saying "Let's refocus our energy on what is important and vital in Christianity and not so much on gays and/or abortion." It just shows how many people would rather just derp about the gays than actually have to do something that might require them to help out the poors.

Obama's Reptiloid Master:meat0918: More evidence in the "American's do not worship the God of the New Testament" column.

Just leave the jackboots at home when you come for the non-believers please. They are so unflattering to the full waisted figures that are the epitome of American Christianity.

Today on my way to work I saw a message scrawled on the back of a pickup, written in shoe polish, excoriating the president for being a dictator and king and concluding with a Bible verse. I couldn't believe I was seeing paranoid schizophrenia in real time so I pulled alongside this patriot, only to discover the fattest man I have ever seen crammed into a Ford Ranger, wearing a USMC cap and camo balaclava.

Wendy's Chili:Obama's Reptiloid Master: meat0918: More evidence in the "American's do not worship the God of the New Testament" column.

Just leave the jackboots at home when you come for the non-believers please. They are so unflattering to the full waisted figures that are the epitome of American Christianity.

Today on my way to work I saw a message scrawled on the back of a pickup, written in shoe polish, excoriating the president for being a dictator and king and concluding with a Bible verse. I couldn't believe I was seeing paranoid schizophrenia in real time so I pulled alongside this patriot, only to discover the fattest man I have ever seen crammed into a Ford Ranger, wearing a USMC cap and camo balaclava.

Mmm... balaclava.

Either you've got one hell of a weird fetish, son, or you must be real fun at the shawarma cart.

ikanreed:Well, Jesus wouldn't have endorsed this "poor people are people too" thing.

I've seen a disturbing number quoting Jesus as saying "The poor will always be with us." as evidence that we should end all social programs because none of them will ever help, or that Jesus was seriously insisting hat the poor will never take responsibility for themselves.

Was that a Glenn Beck quote I missed or something?

Because I don't know how you twist something that much without direction.

Sergeant Grumbles:ikanreed: Well, Jesus wouldn't have endorsed this "poor people are people too" thing.

I've seen a disturbing number quoting Jesus as saying "The poor will always be with us." as evidence that we should end all social programs because none of them will ever help, or that Jesus was seriously insisting hat the poor will never take responsibility for themselves.

Was that a Glenn Beck quote I missed or something?

Because I don't know how you twist something that much without direction.

Because they're brainwashed? It's not hard to see that. There's an active component to getting people to believe untrue things to help concentrate wealth at the top.

jake_lex:meat0918: More evidence in the "American's do not worship the God of the New Testament" column.

Just leave the jackboots at home when you come for the non-believers please. They are so unflattering to the full waisted figures that are the epitome of American Christianity.

Yeah, that's the thing that strikes me here. What Pope Francis is proposing here is not radical in any sense: he's just saying "Let's refocus our energy on what is important and vital in Christianity and not so much on gays and/or abortion." It just shows how many people would rather just derp about the gays than actually have to do something that might require them to help out the poors.

Personally I think its less of Pope Francis being a genuinely "good guy" and more of a schism between the loose coalition of catholics/christians here. Think about how for the last thirty years, catholic and christians have been rather united, especially looking back and seeing how there was a very real segment of protestants afraid of a catholic president (JFK). So all of these Mega-Church preachers/politicians realize that while they have operated with the unspoken consent of The Roman Catholic Church, for the first time there is actually friction between the two power bases and it has scared the shiat out of them. So how do they attempt to keep their power base (and more importantly money) flowing? Attempt to isolate the pope by using political rhetoric like calling him a liberal.

MrBallou:I've been hearing about this "Pope is a Marxist" thing, so I decided to make an exception to my no-WND click rule, just to catch up on exactly what they're saying.

Only got through a few paragraphs before everything went gray. Now my head hurts, my vision is blurred and I can't feel my feet. Please. Someone call a doctor.

Alright, MrBallou, just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You're very over derped right now. You will probably be that way for about five more hours. Try taking some vitamin B complex, vitamin C complex.. if you have a beer, go ahead and drink it...

Just remember you're a living organism on this planet, and you're very safe. You've just taken a heavy derping. Relax, stay inside and listen to some music. Okay? Do you have any Allman Brothers?

Weaver95:Serious Black: I love how people are all but calling Francis a heretic and blasphemer.

Well, to the prosperity gospel types Francis is a very real threat to their ideology.

It's not like American evangelicals ever thought Catholics were anything but heretics and blasphemers in the first place. They've just had an uneasy truce because they both had a beef with women and gays. I do like that Francis has put social justice back on the scale, because it reminds Christians - not only Catholics - that Jesus had stuff on his mind other than restricting access to birth control. Ergo he's a Marxist or whatever.

Surely, given that the Pope is a weak figure globally and red-baiting still has the strength it had at the height of the Cold War, this is a good strategy for the radical right to pursue. I encourage them to keep pushing on it.

God dammit, those guys are hard to come by! NOW how are we going to scrounge up enough good people to fix the US government? If it takes a KGB plant to measure up, we might have to re-institute the Soviet Union to build supply.

Because when one thinks of devout religious faith, one immediately thinks of the KGB. At least, until "Rocky IV" showed them they should pray to an entirely different icon closely associated with Italy.